CVE-2017-6519 · agentprime

avahi-daemon in Avahi through 0.6.32 and 0.7 inadvertently responds to IPv6 unicast queries with source addresses that are not on-link, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (tra…

CVSS 9.1 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.032 · 88th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: mitre) at 1 May 2017, 01:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given	affected n/a

Identifiers

CVE-2017-6519

CNA

mitre

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-346

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.1	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.032, the 88th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 1 May 2017. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/203#issuecomment-449536790
usn.ubuntu.com/3876-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/203
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1426712
usn.ubuntu.com/3876-2/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
www.secfu.net/advisories
lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E mailing-listmlist

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.